Word: shipment
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...rainy morning in Seattle recently, Bezos dropped in at a meeting between Kamen, his team and a pair of Amazon execs. The meeting was being held in an Amazon "pick and pack" facility--a warehouse in which employees pick stock from shelves and pack it in boxes for shipment to customers. Kamen had come to sell Amazon some Segways by demonstrating that they would, as Bezos put it, "improve our picking productivity...
...food, medicine and humanitarian goods. A compromise between Russia and the U.S. ahead of the vote sets the stage for an overhaul of the sanctions program in 2002. By June, Moscow will agree to a list of military and weapons-related goods that will require U.N. approval before shipment to Iraq. Washington will look at possible steps toward the resumption of weapons inspections and the eventual lifting of sanctions...
...rainy morning in Seattle recently, Bezos dropped in at a meeting between Kamen, his team and a pair of Amazon execs. The meeting was being held in an Amazon "pick and pack" facility--a warehouse in which employees pick stock from shelves and pack it in boxes for shipment to customers. Kamen had come to sell Amazon some Segways by demonstrating that they would, as Bezos put it, "improve our picking productivity...
...addition, he is still waiting for a shipment of imported handicrafts he hopes will attract customers...
Paradoxically, the German antinuclear Green Party helped make the shipment happen. In June the federal government (the Greens are part of the coalition) and the nuclear power industry signed a groundbreaking agreement to phase out atomic energy in Germany completely. Under the deal, each of the country's 19 nuclear power stations will shut down after 32 years of service, an average of 12 years from now. As part of the agreement, the government agreed to take back nuclear waste that had been shipped to France in the '70s and '80s for reprocessing into storable materials...